Is it too late to stop World War III? When you look around the globe, you see a bunch of

conflagrations. Obviously, you have the massive war in Ukraine. You have the fight that's

happening in the Middle East between Israel and pretty much every extremist Muslim in the region.

You have burgeoning conflict in China and Taiwan. Is it too late to stop the possibility of a

World War III from breaking out?

There's a columnist named Richard Overy, who's writing for the telegraph in the UK this weekend.

He's a historian. And he posits three particular types of World War III that could break out.

Number one, he says, imagine that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel.

The United States reacts with the threat of military intervention as it did in 1991 and 2003 in Iraq. Iran signals

it will not tolerate a third Gulf War and looks for allies. American forces massed to enter Iran,

which orders national mobilization, Russia, China, and North Korea expressed their support

for Iran. Washington expands its intervention force bringing in a British contingent.

The Third World War begins with an exchange of nuclear fire. Or picture this. Chinese frustration over the status of

Taiwan prompts a buildup of invasion forces. The United States is preoccupied with its own

domestic political crisis. Japan anxiously watches the exchange of harsh words between China and

Taiwan wondering whether to intervene. And eventually China tries something, siding with North

Korea and Russia. Or a possible different kind of conflict, a growing division between a Democratic

West and authoritarian states across Eurasia, in which there is some sort of space-based

attack that takes out communication systems in the West. The West attributes it to the

East and suddenly you have a world war. Now, what Richard Overy suggests is that we are looking

in the wrong place. We need to look at the human pension for war. How exactly do we stop the

human pension for war? But trying to change human nature is generally a giant fail. The reality is

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